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BILL JONES began his pottery career in Asheville at the Penland School of Crafts. He has crafted pots for about six years and 2016 is his first year of selling is own work.

10 “My youngest son, Caleb, died from an apparent heroin overdose October 13 — 27 years and 9 days’ young. This was an unimaginable, tragic, avoidable event in the life of my family, one that has changed life’s direction for us forever,” Stephen Shelton said to begin a TRAINING SESSION for the Greensboro Police Department last week.

11 As 2016 reaches its end, the International Civil Rights Center & Museum nears the completion of seven years of SUCCESSFUL OPERATIONS.

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My partner is a Muslim. My sister is gay. My daughter is dating a Mexican-American. DONALD TRUMP’s consistent and focused threats affect my family and have since he took the national stage. For me, they are not a thing to shrug off.

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CITIZEN ZERO are a grunge-metal-leaning band from Detroit. They have a workmanlike pride about what they do, which might have something to do with being from the Motor City.

27 Community Theatre of Greensboro didn’t perform A Christmas Carol for its holiday show, but it did resurrect a ghost from Christmas past last weekend when it performed a throwback performance to Broach Theatre’s annual classic, A Tuna Christmas.

30 There’s a spate of BOOKS this year about FOOD, proving the diversity of food choices in our state and providing the adventurous with all the information they need for a North Carolina food expedition...

31 Throughout the year, the ARTISTIC CONNECTION hosts special screenings, panel discussions and regular meetings at Altair Casting Services in Winston-Salem in an effort to bring together the region’s artistic contingent 32 ’Tis the season to be jolly and to support the AMAZING LOCAL ARTISANS that make up the Piedmont Triad. How about avoiding the malls and the centers and instead stroll leisurely at a local market or locally-owned business?

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20 17 Ken Lavigne: The Road to Carnegie Hall February 14 The Summit: Manhattan Transfer and Take 6 February 25 The Blackpack: All Laughs Matter March 25 The Hillbenders The Who’s Tommy: A Bluegrass Opry March 31 Will Downing April 1 3 Redneck Tenors Down Home Laughs, Big City Music April 29 Dr. Elliot Engel: The Brilliance of Sir Walter Raleigh May 16

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CANDLELIGHT SOUL FOOD SCROOGE’S CHRISTMAS TOUR CHRISTMAS WHAT: This Thursday come enjoy some OF OLD JAMESTOWN authentic TROLLEY TOUR “Soul Food” at the Artist Bloc, WHAT: Step back in time. Come stroll lighted pathways to three candlelit homes decorated for the season. Listen to holiday music, sip hot cider, and sample Christmas cookies. Parking will be available at Mendenhall House and at designated areas across the street.

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“Where Creative Minds Meet”. Your soul will be feed with live music, open mic, and art. The session starts at 8pm. This is an AfroBlew production where art, education and culture is disguised as commerce.

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WHAT: Scrooges Christmas Trolley Tour is a dramatic retelling of Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol, featuring both laughter and serious moments. Passengers travel back in time to Christmases past with Scrooge on his journey via the trolley to see scenes from this wonderful holiday story.

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What: You are cordially invited to The Islamic Center of Greensboro’s monthly educational tour. This is a golden opportunity to meet your Muslim neighbors, eat some delicious food, tour a Muslim’s house of prayer, and learn about the basics of the world religion of Islam. There is no dress code and all men, women, and children are welcome.

WheN: 11.30 a.m. - 1 p.m.

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What: Another RoadSide Attraction instead take you back to when musicians performed their witty ditties and jingly-jangle tunes anywhere such a band of gypsies could pull over in a caravan and steal the publics attention. True to their name, Another RoadSide Attraction create this carnival atmosphere.

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Foundation will host a Christmas Cruise-In at their facility in Level Cross, featuring the big man in red, Santa Claus, and the big man in black, Richard Petty. Anyone can cruise in and show off their car, but participants are encouraged to bring a new, unwrapped toy to donate to kids in our area.

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11 TRAnS SIBERIAn ORCHESTRA What: Trans-Siberian Orchestra has announced the dates of its 2016 Winter Tour, once again featuring one of the groups beloved stories performed in its own renowned audio visual manner. In its Platinum anniversary year, TSO is bringing back its treasured tale, The Ghosts of Christmas Eve WheN: 7:30 p.m.

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BILL JONES - POTTERY GESTURES

BY ALLISON STALBERG

Bill Jones began his pottery career in Asheville at the Penland School of Crafts.

He has crafted pots for about six years and 2016 is his first year of selling is own work.

Since selling his pottery, Jones finds the greatest reward to be his work becoming a part of someone’s life. He believes it is a challenge to convey the quality of taking time to enjoy ceramics in this day and age, so he loves it when someone takes the time to enjoy the product.

“After a while I think the rewarding thing is to hear back from somebody who has had this thing in their life for some time,” said Jones. “They have had time to appreciate it because I think that is the kind of time it takes to actually appreciate a pot.”

One of the highlights of Jones’ career is doing a two year apprenticeship with Daniel Johnston from Seagrove.

“I feel extremely lucky to have had the opportunity to do that and to be able to become part of a lineage in the way of a master and apprentice,” said Jones. “That

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All of Jones’ work is functional, ranging from teapots to vases to cups. Art and functionality meet in his work, as he integrates abstract decoration in every piece.

“I am a student of gesture,” Jones wrote on his website. “Marks made in haste, structures quickly erected, abstraction out of necessity. A quick sketch on a cocktail napkin. A drawing on the wall of your cave.

“The marks I make and the forms I construct embody this way of working. There are many attempts and many losses, yet risk imbues each piece with a kinetic, anxious energy. These things function and are meant for daily, rigorous use.”

Jones’ goal for the future is to have his own spot in Greensboro. He is joining the Greensboro studio, Earthworks, and hopes to build a wood kiln and continue to make better work.

Interested in Jones’ work? Visit his website at www.billjonespottery.com He is also selling is work at www.contactcollaborative.com. !

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MERLEFEST ADDS FIVE MORE ARTISTS TO 2017 LINEUP

MerleFest, slated for April 27-30, 2017, has just announced five more artists added to the 2017 lineup: Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives, Sarah Jarosz, The Steel Wheels, The Kruger Brothers and Mipso. MerleFest 2017 will be the 30th annual homecoming where musicians and music fans return to Wilkes Community College in Wilkesboro, North Carolina, in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Many artists who have graced the stages over the past three decades plan to return for the celebration! MerleFest has already announced over 75 artists, including Zac Brown Band with a very special acoustic set, Del McCoury Band, Jim Lauderdale, Sam Bush, Jerry Douglas, Peter Rowan, Mountain Heart and many more. The rest of the packed lineup for MerleFest 2017 will roll out over the next few months.

Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives – Since singing gospel as a child, Marty Stuart has led an extraordinarily musical life. Not only did he tour with Lester Flatt in the ‘70s and Johnny Cash in the ‘80s, he also came with his own smash “hillbilly rock” hits of the ‘90s that earned him multiple Grammy awards. As leader of the versatile touring and recording band The Fabulous Superlatives, Marty Stuart has shown a showman’s zest for every conceivable flavor of country music, not to mention a missionary’s zeal for bringing the importance of the music and its themes home to longtime fans and newcomers alike. Stuart performed at the first MerleFest in 1988 where it all began and will be back to celebrate the 30th year. This performance will be on Sunday.

Sarah Jarosz – Sarah Jarosz emerged on the acoustic music scene as a mandolin wunderkind in her young teens, jamming onstage with bluegrass icons like David Grisman and Ricky Skaggs. Her formidable talent as an instrumentalist, including her work on guitar and banjo, vocalist and songwriter, led then 18-year-old Jarosz to a record deal with legendary roots label Sugar Hill Records and a major in contemporary improvisation in voice at the prestigious New England Conservatory. On Sarah Jarosz’s fourth album, “Undercurrent,” the impact of being a full-time artist living in New York City is palpable. “Undercurrent” captures the process of personal evolution and discovery as well as the inspirational nature of change. Jarosz will perform on Saturday at MerleFest 2017.

The Steel Wheels – The Steel Wheels have enthralled audiences across the country with its heady brew of original

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soulful mountain music. Based in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, this dynamic band marries old-time musical traditions with its own innovative sound. Trent Wagler’s weathered tenor is joined by bellclear four-part harmonies inspired by a shared Mennonite heritage. Add to this Eric Brubaker’s lively and evocative fiddle, Brian Dickel’s grounded yet buoyant upright bass, and Jay Lapp’s signature mandolin style, and it is no surprise that The Steel Wheels have burst onto the Americana scene, becoming festival favorites and selling out venues across the country.

The Kruger Brothers – Born and raised in Europe, brothers Jens and Uwe Kruger started singing and playing instruments at a very young age. Growing up in a family where music was an important part of life, they were exposed to a wide range of music, Doc Watson, Flatt and Scruggs, Bill Monroe and other progenitors of country, bluegrass and folk music. The brothers were performing regularly by the time they were 11 and 12 years old, and they began their professional career in 1979. Jens’ and Uwe’s first public performances were as a duo, and in just a few years they were busking on the streets of cities throughout eastern and western Europe.

Mipso – Critically acclaimed Indie Americana band Mipso continue expanding their sonic resources while doubling down on their experimentation with string band tradition. Dubbed “traditionalist renegades,” Mipso’s music is influenced by the contradiction of their progressive home of Chapel Hill, North Carolina and the surrounding rural southern landscapes.

MerleFest’s lineup reflects the diversity and quality of performers who are the hallmark of the festival. MerleFest is known for its unique mix of traditional, roots-oriented music from the Appalachian region, including bluegrass and old-time music, Americana, blues, country, Celtic, Cajun, cowboy, zydeco, rock and many other styles that the late Doc Watson referred to as “traditional plus.” The developing lineup is viewable at MerleFest. org/lineup.

Tickets for MerleFest 2017 are on sale now and may be purchased at MerleFest. org or by calling 1-800-343-7857. A threetiered pricing structure is again offered for MerleFest 2017. Early Bird Tier 1 ticket discount is available through February 12, 2017. Early Bird Tier 2 ticket discount will run from February 13, 2017, through April 27, 2017. The third price tier will be gate pricing. Fans are encouraged to take advantage of the extended early bird discount. !

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Greensboro Police receive new tool to combat overdoses

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BY RICH LEWIS

My youngest son, Caleb, died from an apparent heroin overdose October 13 — 27 years and 9 days’ young. This was an unimaginable, tragic, avoidable event in the life of my family, one that has changed life’s direction for us forever,” Stephen Shelton said to begin a training session for the Greensboro Police Department last week.

As the officers gathered to learn about a new overdose intervention medication they will carry in their police cars, local businessman Shelton drove home the point that not only are overdose cases and deaths on the rise locally, but that they are happening to real people who succumbed to real troubles in their lives.

“Caleb was exceptionally gifted as an athlete,” Shelton continued, describing All Star accolades in high school and then promise in college. Injuries and surgeries due to the sports and a later motorcycle accident, though, led to a story that is becoming all too common.

“Each time (he) was prescribed increasing doses of opiate pain medications, for prolonged periods of time,” Shelton told the assembled officers. “This leads to dependency and escalates up the chain of ‘treatment’ to a cheaper, more readily available option, heroin.”

Caleb’s death came after an attempt at rehabilitation and he leaves behind a two-year old son.

Police officers are often the first to arrive on the scene of an overdose and early intervention can possibly save a life, if the officers have the right tools in hand. Now, thanks to a generous donation from Project Lazarus, a non-profit harm reduction organization based in Wilkes County, 300 doses of naloxone HCI (NARCAN) will now be available to patrolmen and officers of the Greensboro Police Department.

Each Greensboro police car will have a NARCAN kit onboard to use in emergencies.

Training in the use of the medication was provided by Guilford County EMS Training Instructor Kerry Cross. He explained that in opioid overdose cases, death is often the result of the drug blocking the receptors in the central nervous system that regulate breathing. As the opioids overwhelm this, the patient stops breathing, goes cyanotic (begins turning blue) and then dies if a narcotic antagonist isn’t administered.

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The NARCAN units the officers will receive, Cross explained, are designed to work like a nasal spray. If an officer determines that someone is unconscious and suffering from an opioid overdose, they can administer the medication.

Once in the patient’s system, the NARCAN will begin clearing those receptors and breathing will hopefully resume.

“This only treats opiates, like methadone, heroin, and hydrocodone,” Cross advised the officers. “If you administer this and there are none of these drugs are onboard (in the patient) no harm is done.”

The medication, when done through nasal administration, can take about three minutes to take effect. He also cautioned that how well the initial dose works also depends upon the strength of the narcotic and the amount that was taken. EMS workers have access to intramuscular or intravenous delivered versions of the medication for severe cases.

While the intramuscular injections are faster, it was decided that adding a needle to the environment the officers work in was not advisable. Emergency medical personnel should already be in route and can administer additional doses if necessary.

“And the NARCAN dose only lasts for 30 minutes to an hour,” Cross said. “If the patient wakes up and starts saying

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they are okay, they don’t realize that they can fall right back into high when this wears off.”

He also warned officers that as the patients come out of the overdose, they can be unpredictable. Some will be coherent, others can be highly agitated or violent when the high is abruptly ended. Vomiting and nausea are also commonplace.

Cross advised that if the officer had identified the case as a probable overdose, they are cleared to administer the medication and provide CPR or breathing assistance as needed. Once breathing returns to the patient, they are to turn the patient on their side (to prevent airway obstruction) and await the arrival of EMS. NARCAN is not a new medication, he explained. It was created in 1961 and given FDA approval in 1971. Since then it has been used widely and its effects studied. It has been standard issue for members of the Guilford County Sheriff’s Department for a little over a year and has been carried by the High Point Police Department since May of this year.

Local EMS and emergency rooms have been using it for considerably longer times.

So far this year (as of November 30), the Sheriff’s Office has administered it ten times and officers of the High Point PD have administered 14 doses. Overall administrations of the medication in Guilford County for the year so far totals 730 cases, 413 within Greensboro, which includes use in hospitals and by emergency medical services. In addition, 2600 doses of NARCAN have been distributed to the lay public by the NC Harm Coalition, a non-profit organization that works to put these life-saving medications in the hands of users and their families.

“Officers were telling me that they were seeing too many people suffering from potentially-fatal heroin overdoses, and they wanted the medication readily available to help combat the effects of the drug,” said Greensboro Police Chief Wayne Scott. “We are thankful that Project Lazarus was able to get us such a large supply of naloxone so quickly.” !

RICH LEWIS is a father, husband, writer and cook who makes his home in Greensboro, NC.

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Civil Rights museum sets goals for ‘second stage’ of its founding era

BY JOHN L. SWAINE As 2016 reaches its end, the International Civil Rights Center & Museum nears the completion of seven years of successful operations. Having navigated a challenging path, we celebrate this hard-earned institutional performance as a foundation for our future growth and increasing strength. We are toughminded believers in the progress of a civilization distinguished — and ultimately defined — by the elevating themes of civil liberty and full citizenship for all of our people. But we must not forget the need for continued enlightenment and creative thinking about these transformative values.

In August, Sit-In Movement, Inc. — the private, non-profit parent company of the Civil Rights Museum — attained a milestone that ranks second only to the fulfillment reflected in the Museum’s opening on Feb. 1, 2010. Adding to a similar resolution in 2015, we successfully brought to a close nearly $36 million in complex tax credit arrangements that funded the establishment of this inspiring institution at the same time that it supplied a dynamic hub of economic development for Downtown Greensboro.

At this point, the financial obligations of the Museum are down to less than $1.3 million, which we can address by normal fund-raising.

This accomplishment was the endproduct of steady financial management, with a strategic “eye on the prize” of our future sustainability and impact. We now move confidently toward completing the consolidation of the Civil Rights Museum’s nationally celebrated founding, having built a secure platform for viewing the bright future of this cherished international landmark of the struggle for social justice and civic inclusion.

Earlier in the summer, the ICRCM received notice that our common efforts with the other 14 landmarks that make up the United States Civil Rights Trail had reached another step in their progress toward recognition as a UNESCO World Heritage Site when the Mayor of Birmingham, Ala., announced approval by the National Park Service to advance the nomination.

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year in the downtown area. More than half of these are school-age students who encounter the dynamic history of the movement for an equal place in American society. As we regularly earn the No. 1 position on Tripadvisor.com’s list of the area’s most approved tourist attractions, we have continued to help generate commercial activity in Downtown Greensboro.

The historic significance of this landmark can be seen by the fact that small sections of our F.W. Woolworth’s iconic lunch counter, where the broader Sit-In Movement against racial segregation was spurred, now resonate with symbolic presence on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. — as a centerpiece of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History and as authentic exhibit artifacts at the newly opened National Museum of African American History and Culture. But the major part of the restored lunch counter and stools remain, as they were, at the Civil Rights Museum in Greensboro, where visitors describe their experiences as both soberly informative and hopefully transformative. Yet, today, as we focus our attention on the provocative gumption of the N.C. A&T Four — young men named Joseph McNeil, Ezell Blair (Jibreel Khazan), Franklin McCain and David Richmond — their past struggle for human dignity and equal status continues, even as its achievements undergo severe challenge. To this striving, we dedicate the Museum’s growing capacity to help a longing community — local, national, and international — understand and address challenges to our hopes for human progress.

The difficult breakthrough emblematized by this landmark on behalf of building a better America, which had been promised a century earlier by the Constitution and which was pushed forward at this internationally recognized “site of conscience,” put Piedmont North Carolina on the map in the 1960s as a world center for lessons on the struggle for civil and human rights. Since then, North Carolina prospered economically and culturally under the image of moderate progressivism. In recent years, however, the state government’s deep and notorious descent into statutory bigotry against sexual minorities and tactical racial discrimination against voting rights has sullied the North Carolina brand, in official defiance of the 14th and 15th Amendments to the Constitution. With the 13th, these Amendments (which we call the “Core-Three”) were, and are, the

foundation of the Civil Rights Movement.

Now, in much the same spirit as the brave action at the F.W. Woolworth’s landmark enlivened the Civil Rights Movement, and as the imaginative investments made by Sit-In Movement, Inc., have encouraged the revival of Downtown Greensboro, the International Civil Rights Center & Museum plans

another strategic intervention. As the focus of our Center and the keystone for the second stage of our founding as a national and international institution, we have opened an Initiative for the New Constitution. Its aim is to expound and promote a constitutional world where the solemn promises made by this People to itself in the Core-Three Amendments 150 years ago are shifted from largely forgotten hopes or objects of defiance into compelling values and durable facts. Our aim is to counter this nation’s civic decay into ideological division and mutual contempt with a vision of what a full-on Civil Rights America can be for, with our eyes on a possible future.

In surveying the quality of social encounters resulting from the political election campaign over the last year, let us commit ourselves to the need for advancing civic intelligence and mutual respect in the coming year. We ask you to join us, as we have joined the A&T Four, in working toward achieving this nation’s constitutional regeneration. !

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y partner is a Muslim.

My sister is gay. My daughter is dating a Mexican-American.

Donald Trump’s consistent and Steve Mitchell focused threats affect my family and have since he took Contributor the national stage.

For me, they are not a thing to shrug off.

They are personal. For the first time in my white, middle-aged life, a president is personally threatening members of my family: with arrest, with registration, with an assault on their human and legal rights. On January 20, 2017, parts of my government turn against me.

The White Nationalist strategy (let’s stop calling it Republican, let’s call it what it is) of the last twenty years has been to undermine our trust in government and democracy as a system and to tacitly support armed rebellions as long as they are comprised of white people. The capstone of this strategy is to elect a man with the intellectual and emotional maturity of a stunted eight year old to the Presidency, demeaning not only the office but the concept of rational government itself.

This is not to say that every Republican or Trump voter is a White Nationalist, far from it. Those who voted for Trump have

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Stay angry real, valid complaints and concerns and they deserve to be heard. The primary issue for them is that their leaders and government have failed them. Trump will do nothing to address these concerns.

Their issues won’t be taken seriously, or even heard, by a Trump presidency.

The people in and around the Trump ascendency are ideologues and rational thought has no place in the world of the ideologue. Mike Pence advocates creationism, for Christ sake. (“I also believe that someday scientists will come to see that only the theory of intelligent design provides even a remotely rational explanation for the known universe.” Pence, 2002.)

An ideology allows us to dispense with the messy tyranny of facts. Mike Pence believes the earth is only 5000 years old, give or take a thousand. He has no use for complicated things like science. Donald Trump doesn’t think he needs security briefings; he already knows what he believes.

Ideologues want war. Always. War is the only way to force reality toward their vision. They cultivate war wherever they can find it.

The first blow in this war has already been struck and it is fear. I know this from friends and family who are suddenly more frightened to be on the street alone, or in a coffee shop or to go into a retail store.

These aren’t questionable Facebook anecdotes; they’re experiences of real people I know who’ve been accosted by strangers on a roadside or refused service

at a chain store. Fear is the first step; it isolates us from those around us.

It’s not a matter of coming together to talk. There is no meaningful discussion to be had with a creationist because any conversation can be grounded only in belief. There is no basis of reality upon which to build a shared vision.

This should make us angry---not burn-the-house-down-to-spite-ourselves rage, but reasoned, sustained anger. Rage leads to violence; anger leads to thought and action. Rage consumes us; anger can embolden us. And anger is a legitimate response. It’s awkward, vulnerable, but it’s legitimate.

I will not legitimize Trump’s rhetoric by acting as if it articulates coherent points of view when Trump himself has no idea what he means most of the time, if indeed he means anything at all. When he speaks of registering ‘Muslims’, does he mean all people who attend mosque, or people who are culturally Muslim, or does he mean ‘refugees’, or does he mean ‘troublesome black people’? It’s impossible to know.

And perhaps, that’s the point.

If we come to believe (or teach, or accept as a reasonable alternative) that the earth is only 5000 years old, we might come to believe mental illness is caused by demons and being gay can be cured by conversion therapy.

I’m not advocating a simmering endless anger or a constant white-knuckled clenching of the fists. I’m not advocating

verbal attacks on those with differing opinions or setting tires aflame in the streets. I’m not advocating signing another fucking MoveOn petition or reposting echo chamber quasi-news.

I’m advocating active resistance to that which offends, not our sensibilities or our politics, but our sense of human decency.

I’m advocating calling a thing what it is: white nationalism, repression, ethnic targeting. Belief, not fact.

I’m advocating not allowing our language to be turned back upon us as a thing that contains only the most reactive emotions or, worse yet, has no meaning at all. I’m advocating naming what is going on and protecting the language with which we talk about it. It begins now.

Do I find ways to channel my anger now, at the beginning of this White Nationalist ordeal, or do I wait until they force my partner to register, until they strip my sister of her civil rights, until they deport a Mexican boyfriend?

Do I pretend that the ‘alt-right’ is a legitimate political stance and not the regressive human rights disaster that it is?

Soon, our country will be in the hands of a man who can’t even manage his own Twitter account in an adult manner.

I will stay angry. I will find ways to resist, means to argue. It’s not an abstract concept. It’s real every day. The people I love are at risk. !

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[NEWS OF THE WEIRD] EVEN BAKING SODA IS DANGEROUS Almost all law enforcement agencies in America use the Scott Reagent field test when they discover powder that Chuck Shepherd looks like cocaine, but the several agencies that have actually conducted tests for “false positives” say they happen up to half the time. In October, the latest victims (husband-and-wife truck drivers with spotless records and Pentagon clearances) were finally released after 75 days in jail awaiting trial — for baking soda that tested “positive” three times by Arkansas troopers (but, eventually, “negative” by a state crime lab). (Why do police love the test? It costs $2.) The truck drivers had to struggle to get their truck back and are still fighting to be re-cleared to drive military explosives.

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that 100,000 people worldwide identify as “ecosexuals,” ranging from those who campaign for “sustainable”-ingredient sex toys to those who claim to have intercourse with trees (but sanding the bark for comfort might provoke concern about being “abusive”). A University of Nevada, Las Vegas professor studies the phenomenon and knows, for example, of humans who “marry” the Earth or prefer sex while rolling in potting soil or under a waterfall. On one “arborphilia” support blog, a female poster regretted her choice to have “convenient” sex with the sycamore outside her bedroom window instead of the sturdy redwood she actually covets. (Yes, some “mainstream” environmentalists somehow are not completely supportive.)

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— If You See Something, Say Something: Ricky Berry and his roommate walked in to a CVS store in Richmond, Virginia, in November to ask if it carried sliced cheese but were told no. Minutes later, all the employees walked to the back of the store, hid in a locked room, and called the police. Berry and pal, and a third customer (with a toothache and desper-

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WRIC-TV reported later that the employee who panicked and called police will “possibly” need retraining.

— Groundbreaking Legal Work: In October, a court in Australia’s Victoria state began considering an appeal on whether three deaf people might be too intellectually challenged to have planned a murder.

The prosecutor offered surveillance video of the three in a lobby planning the murder’s details via sign language as they waited for an elevator to take them up to the eventual crime scene.

— Pigs are such complex animals that scientists are studying how to tell the “optimists” from the “pessimists.” British researchers writing in a recent Biology Letters described how “proactive” porkers differed from “reactive” ones, and, as with humans, how their particular mood at that time distinguished them as “glass half full” rather than “glass half empty.”

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Guilford County Football All-Stars

BY Andy Durham Greensborosports.com Editor’s note: There’s nothing much bigger across local communities in our country than high school football. It unites communities each fall as a new season dawns and provides pathways to higher education for many young people. To that end, we’ve partnered with the good folks at greensborosports.com to present YES! Weekly’s first every Guilford County All-Star Football Team. We’ll look to expand coverage of the great things young athletes are doing in the Triad in the future, but in collaboration with Andy Durham and his team at greensborosports.com we hope you enjoy this first selection of all-star athletes.

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Player of the Year

Coach of the Year Doug Robertson (11-0) at Eastern Guilford High School....

Honorable Mention: Earl Bates(Southern Guilford)...(9-2) and John Patterson(High Point Andrews)...(7-4) Doug Robertson’s answers to the Pick Six Questions: 1)The Maturity of the Team and learning to win the Big Games. 2) Hottest Year Ever, Wet Field in the morning after a rain and conditions Hot and Humid all day long. 3) Relaxing and Watching Football. Spending time with Family.

4) TEAM:Resilient and hard-nosed. 5)Wife and Kids and Dad, plus Jesus Christ. 6) Western Alamance.

First Team Offense Quarterback: Hendon Hooker(Dudley HS)/Will Jones(Page HS) ...

Honorable Mention: Jaren Rainey(Southwest Guilford HS) and De’Shaun Taylor(High Point Christian Academy) Hooker’s Answers: 1) Make an Impact and Chase the Goal to become State Champs.

2) Had fun with it, did not mind thepractice in August. 3) Hit the Basketball Court. 4) Intense and Knowledgeable. 5) Dad (Alan Hooker). 6) Page.

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The Questions: We asked each of our winners to answer the Pick Six set of questions and those questions were: 1) The one thing you will always remember about this 2016 season? 2) August Football Practice, when we say that what do you think of? 3) The day after your season is over, what will you be doing? 4) What one or two words best describe your coach? 5) The one person, teammate, coach, Mom, Dad, brother or sister or friend that stuck with you this football season and maybe they were closer than a brother to you this year? 6) Toughest Opposing Team, the first school that comes to your mind? First thought, the instant reaction, almost like “I want them right now”? - Andy Durham

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Hendon Hooker (Dudley High School) Hooker’s stat’s for the Regular Season: 1,729 passing yards on 86-137 passing with 17 TDs/3 INTs…62.8% passing and 157.2 yards per game…Hooker tallied 829 rushing yards and 18 rushing TD’s…

Hooker with 2,558 total yards and 35 TDs.

Hendon Hooker (Dudley HS) Will Jones (Page HS) Defensive Player of the Year Tyler DeBerry (Page HS)

Jones’ Answers: 1) One thing I will remember about this season is beating the teams nobody thought we could beat and proving everybody wrong in Guilford County. 2) When you say August football practice my mind immediately goes to running stadium steps and building a bond with my teammates. 3) The day after the season is over I will either be at basketball practice or playing in a basketball game. 4) Two words that describe coach G would be blue collar. He embraces those two words and constantly pushes us to be that way; he’s a humble hard worker who is going to do the job everyday and not make excuses. 5) My mother has always been by my side no matter what. I love her to death and don’t know what I would do without her. I thank God for my mother, she’s truly a blessing. 6) The team I cannot wait to play is Olympic because they are in our way trying to take what we are striving for away from us and we cannot let that happen.

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Running Backs: Chavis Little (High Point Central HS), Javon Leake (Page HS), Myron Frazier (Northern Guilford HS), Travis Steele (High Point Andrews) ...

because I transferred from there and I would love to play against old teammates and coaches.

Travis Steele (High Point Andrews) 1) Playoffs.

2) It was all right.

3) Thinking and planning. 4) Crazy and fun. 5) Jamari Palbusa. 6) High Point Central.

Honorable Mention: Jarious Drayton (Ragsdale HS), Jordan Brown (High Point Andrews), Ezra Perkins (Dudley HS), Bryson Jumper (Southwest Guilford HS).

Chavis Little (High Point Central HS) 1)I will always remember my coaches and teammates. 2) I think of pushing myself past my limits and getting myself better for the season. 3) I will continue to work on my craft and run track. 4)Discipline and Motivated...5)I would say my family and coaches because they all pushed and motivated me to do my best....6)East Forsyth Javon LeakeRB(PAGE) 1) The East Forsyth game. Everyone doubted us but we came out and played all four quarters to get the win. 2) All the blood, sweat, and tears we went through as a team running stairs and sprints. 3) Resting, then getting on the track b/c track season comes after football. 4) Old-School 5) Coach Hagan has stayed with me all season and taught me to be a leader. 6) Mallard Creek Myron “MJ” Frazier (Northern Guilford HS) 1) The thing that I will remember about this season is that we only won four games but made it to playoffs. 2) I think of the first day of hitting. 3) The day after the season is over I will be playing basketball and training for track and baseball. 4) Two words that describe my coach are passionate and long-winded.

5) The one person that stuck with me this football season and I consider them my brother is Jake Moore, he’s my favorite player. 6) The first opposing team that comes to mind that I want to play right now is Southern Durham. That’s only

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Wide Receivers: Tre Turner (Northwest Guilford HS), Ronald Polite (Page HS), Curt Ervin (High Point Central HS) ...

Honorable Mention: Ford Moser (Northern Guilford HS), Nic Cheeley (Eastern Guilford HS), Thomas Young (Dudley HS) and Justin Guy (Southeast Guilford).

Tré Turner - WR (NWG): 1) All of the adversity we faced. 2) Ready to get this boot off so I can get back out there.

(I was injured all of July & most of August.) 3) Going to basketball practice. 4) Trustworthy and Caring. 5) My barbers (aka my security). 6) Western, I’m ready to (play) them whenever and wherever.

you must get ready to Ball out and give it your all even if things get tough. 3) Went home and watched film and tried to see what I need to do to get better. 4) Father and my cousin John John Ervin. 5) Wonderful. 6) Dudley, I want a shot at Dudley, because I want to play and beat the best.

Offensive Line: Tyrese King (High Point Andrews), Evan Surgeon (Southeast Guilford), Nick Mackovic (Page), Bryson Speas (Dudley), Dacquari Wilson (Dudley) ...

Honorable Mention: Isaiah Ashley (Northwest Guilford).

Tyrese King (High Point Andrews HS) - 1) Coach Patterson all crazy during pre-game warm ups. 2) Time to work! 3) Either turning up or feeling sad depending on how it ends. 4) Crazy, motivating.

5) My grandfather. I talk to him after every practice and every game. 6) High Point Central.

Ronald PoliteWR (PAGE): 1) The most memorable moment for me this season is us beating Dudley.

2) When I think of August practice I remember how hot they use to be.

3)Taking a well needed nap. 4) Determined. 5) My friend Ben; we have fun on and off the field. 6) The opportunity To play Mallard Creek.

Evan Surgeon (Southeast Guilford HS) - 1) The one thing that I’ll always remember about this season is the last drive of the Northwest game when we won 1413. 2) When I was younger my dad would always use the phrase, “time to lay the wood”, so that is usually what I think of.

3)At the end of season I’ll go straight into wrestling, so the day after I’ll be wrestling.

4) A good coach. 5) My teammates have been there since the hot Summer workouts all the way to now, but a few guys that are like my brothers are Korrey Marsh and Michael Johnson. 6)Dudley, I feel like we should have had a better game against them.

Curt Ervin - WR (High Point Central): 1) We were able to get tough and stay together as a team and one person doesn’t make the team. 2) Excited for August practice, it is time to show the coaches what you can do and

Nick Mackovic - C/OL (PAGE) 1) Well one thing I’ve always loved is the bonds that you form with your teammates.

However, nothing comes close to that Dudley game this year, and how we stopped them on

the 1 yard line as time expired. 2) August football practice to me is the most exciting time of the year. You finally get to put the pads back on and go out there and get after it with your teammates again.

3) The day after my season is over I will definitely start preparing for the next.

That starts with watching a lot of film and studying what I need to improve on.

4) One word I would use to describe coach Gillespie would be extremely dedicated.

5) I couldn’t really choose just one person that stuck with me because both of my parents have been so supportive of me, not only this year but throughout my entire sports career. 6) When I think of an opposing team, the first team to come to mind is definitely Dudley. The game we played earlier this year was by far the most exciting game I have been a part of.

Bryson Speas (Dudley HS) - 1) The one thing I will remember about this 2016 football season is all of the hard work and preparation it took to get in the position that we are in. 2) When I hear the words August practice all I think about is putting the pads on and getting after it with my teammates. 3) The day after the season is over I’ll be back on the grind preparing myself for college. 4)Intense and passionate. 5) Quran Blount. 6) Page.

Dacquori Wilson (Dudley HS) - 1) Doing 150 up downs during practice with my teammates because the locker room was dirty. 2) Only a few Days away from the first game. 3)In the weight room preparing myself for college football. 4)Serious and Tough. 5) All my teammates have been close to me since my freshman year!

We’re a family! And I love them all! Dboyz in the house!! Bad news! 6)Page.

Offensive Athlete: Thomas Hennigan (Northwest Guilford HS). Offensive Athlete Honorable Mention: Gerald Simpson (Northeast Guilford) and Edrick Purnell (Western Guilford HS).

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to beat Northern.

2) I think of the hot weather, preseason expectations and getting ready for those Friday night lights...3) Playing football with my friends outside. 4) Role Model. 5) Obviously my family supported me every game but my girlfriend Lindsay came to every game and was there to enjoy the wins and help me with the losses, her parents did too. 6) Northern, I could play in that environment every night of my life.

Kicker: Thomas Murray (Page HS) Punter: Cody Creed (Northwest Guilford HS) Thomas Murray- P (PAGE) 1) One thing I will remember from this 2016 season is the fun that we had as a team at each practice and game. 2) August football practice to me means that it’s time to get back to work. 3) Hitting the weight room and getting ready for next season. 4) A word to describe coach G is dedicated.

5) My mom has been there for me the whole season. When I was too sore or tired in summer to go to workouts she convinced me to go and it has made all the difference this season. 6) Mallard Creek. We took a rough loss in last year’s championship and I look forward to getting the chance to beat them this year in the playoff.

Cory Creed - Kicker (NWG) 1) The one thing that I will remember from this season is beating Northern for the first time in school history.

2) When I think of August, I think of hard work in the weight-room with the team all getting stronger/faster. 3) The day after the season is over a new season begins I go straight back to work in the weight-room and the field working on technique. 4) The two words that best describe my coach are family and structure.

Everyone on the football team is a big family and he runs a very organized practice. 5) Tre Turner. 6) I want to play Glenn again. We should have won that game,

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DEFENSE Defensive Line: Brevin Allen(Northeast Guilford HS), Awstyn Williams (Dudley HS), Spencer Clapp (Eastern Guilford HS), Tyler DeBerry (Page HS), Mekhi Siler (Southern Guilford HS) ...

Honorable Mention: Trey Love (Southeast Guilford HS), Erik Walker (Eastern Guilford HS), Canyon Duncan (Grimsley HS)

Without question.

Brevin Allen (Northeast Guilford HS) -1) Making the Playoffs.

2) First day I get to hit. 3) Starting basketball season.

4) A great one. 5) My Mom. 6) Eastern Guilford.

Awstyn Williams (Dudley HS) - 1) The talent we had on our team. 2) That’s when real practice really starts. 3)Celebrating because the day before me and my team would just have won the State Championship. 4) Winner. 5) My Mom stuck with me this season like no other just like she has my whole life. 6) Ben L. Smith High School is the first team that comes to mind.

Spencer Clapp (Eastern Guilford HS) - 1) Will remember the coaches the most.

2) Miserable, hot and more heat. 3) Watching TV and taking a break. 4) Short-tempered.

5) Coach Tinsley. 6) Western Alamance.

Tyler DeBerry - (PAGE) 1) I will always remember the goal line stand against Dudley to win the game. 2) Heat and conditioning. 3) Be preparing for what’s ahead.

4) Dedicated and Father-like. 5) Dad, he always gives me his reflection of Friday nights every day. 6) Mallard Creek.

Mekhi Siler (Southern Guilford High School) - 1) Practice, tough practices where you need to everything right, because perfect practice makes for perfect plays in the game. 2) Hot stuff and hard running and the heat would not end, we couldn’t catch a break from the heat. 3) Go to work, as in go to work in the Weight Room to get ready for college. 4) Tough/Real tough. 5) Tyrese Brooks. 6) Ledford.

Linebacker: Kyin Howard (Eastern Guilford HS), Nigel Peele (Dudley HS), Patrick Conner (Dudley HS), Alan Tisdale (Page HS)....

Honorable Mention: Michael Jurado (Southern Guilford HS), DeAndre Days (Southern Guilford HS), Jaylen Covington (Southwest Guilford HS), Quandre’ Clagon (Northeast Guilford HS), Alex Gray (Page HS), Wistar Allen (High Point Christian Academy) and Zachary White (Smith HS).

Kyin Howard (Eastern Guilford HS) - 1) All the practices to get through and it made us better. 2) County Fair with all of stations and Circuit Training.

3) Start Track and start College Football prep. 4)Hard-working. 5) Coach Kennedy Tinsley. 6)Western Alamance.

Nigel Peele (Dudley HS) - 1) One thing that I will remember about this season is how great of a family this team is. 2) The first thing that comes to mind is the first game of the season and the preparation for the upcoming game. 3) I will be in the gym getting bigger and faster for the next level. 4) Determined and a Leader.

5) Everybody on the team, we’re like a big family. 6) Page! That loss was bad losing by one point at the end is a heart break, knowing that we couldn’t get a rematch made it even worse.

Patrick Conner (Dudley HS) - 1) The one thing I’ll remember the most about this season is losing to Page. 2) When I think of August practice, I think of heat and preparing for the first game. 3) After the season, I’ll be preparing for college ball.

4) Intense and Tough. 5) Probably would have to be my dad. 6) Page or Eastern.

Alan Tisdale (PAGE) - 1) You will make mistakes, and never let them bring you down. 2) Harder practices, season

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coming up, and more competition.

3) I will continue to practice and strive to get better and stronger. 4) Coach Sam motivated to never give up and always push through it. 5) Mom & Grandma 6) Dudley High School; never under estimate them cause you never know what they have in their pocket.

Defensive Back: Brion Seagraves(Dudley HS), Brelin Faison-Walden(Grimsley HS), Bryant Barr (Eastern Guilford), James Artis (Eastern Guilford), Jaylen Guy (Southeast Guilford HS) ...

Honorable Mention: Myles White (Dudley HS), Breyon Harrison (Southern Guilford), Micah Gafford (Page HS), Myles Berry (Dudley HS) and Myles White (Dudley HS).

Brion Seagraves (Dudley HS) - 1)The one thing I will always remember about 2016 football season is losing to Page High School for the conference championship. 2) When I think of august football practice I think of strictly business and pursuing a team goal of a state championship. 3) The day after the football season is over I will be playing basketball and getting a job. 4) Tough and Smart. 5) The one person that stuck with me during football season is my mother. 6) Page High School because I think we weren’t focused and we took them lightly that week, so I would like to play them again and prepare differently.

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Brelin Faison - Walden (Grimsley HS) - 1) The improvement of the program and how close everybody has gotten throughout the season.

2) First days of hitting. 3) I will be in the weight room. 4) Passionate / leader. 5) My parents have stuck through this season with me helping me out with recruiting and even through the stressful times trying to find the right school and dealing with the season, this has improved our relationships and communication. 6) Dudley.

Jaylen Guy(Southeast Guilford HS - 1) When my brother and I (Justin) ran two kickoffs back in the same game.

2) Anytime I hear practice I just think that it’s time to get some work in. 3) I will be getting ready for baseball season.

4) Coach Fritz. 5) Everybody really but if I had to pick it would have to be my brother (Justin). He is just a real easy role model to follow. 6) Dudley. They are one of the best around and who doesn’t like playing against the best.

Defensive Athlete: DJ Crossen (Dudley HS) - 1) One thing I will always remember about this 2016 season is that I most likely won’t be able to play with my brothers from the 2017 class again. 2) I think of hard work and a fresh start for the season ahead. To really focus on the season and put forth my best efforts. 3) Working out and playing basketball. 4) Honest and Caring. 5) Coach Denoris Best. 6) Page and to get a chance to play them again because I know we are better than them and could’ve played better than what we did. !

Bryant Barr (Eastern Guilford HS) - 1) Practice, practice, practice, lots of practice.

2) Rough month and good month to prepare for the long hard season, we got some real good work done in August. 3) Get ready for college, take one week off and go back to work and start pushing to get to the next level. 4) No excuses/Enthusiastic. 5) Mom and Dad. 6) Western Alamance.

James Artis (Eastern Guilford HS) - 1) Good to feel undefeated, like that entire Undefeated Feeling for the Regular Season.

2) Very hard, but it is to get us prepared for the grind of the season. 3) Go to Sleep/Get some rest. 4) Resilient and Determined. 5) My two best friends, Zion Walker and Bryant Barr. 6)Western Alamance.

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HOME GROWN MUSIC SCENE | Compiled by Austin Kindley

ASHEBORO

FOUR SAINTS BREWING

218 South Fayetteville St. | 336.610.3722 foursaintsbrewing.com Dec 9: RD & Co. Dec 10: Be The Moon Dec 16: Bradon Hughes Dec 17: Emma Lee Dec 21: Traditional Irish/Celtic Music Session Dec 30: Matt Walsh Dec 31: John The Revelator Jan 6: Open Mic w/ Wolfie Calhoun

CLEMMONS

RIVER RIDGE TAPHOUSE 1480 River Ridge Dr | 336.712.1883 riverridgetaphouse.com Dec 9: Exit 180 Dec 10: Southern Eyes Dec 15: Jake Dean Dec 16: Chasin Skirt Dec 17: Leather And Lace Dec 31: Pop Guns

DANBURY

GREEN HERON ALE HOUSE

1110 Flinchum Rd | 336.593.4733 greenheronclub.com Dec 10: Another Roadside Attraction Dec 17: David Childers Dec 23: Local Music Christmas Celebration Dec 31: New Years Eve Social with Regal Sloan

GREENSBORO

ARIZONA PETE’S

2900 Patterson St #A | 336.632.9889 arizonapetes.com Dec 9: 1-2-3 Friday Dec 16: 1-2-3 Friday

ARTISTIKA NIGHT CLUB

523 S Elm St | 336.271.2686 artistikanightclub.com Dec 9: DJ Dan the Player Dec 10: DJ Paco and DJ Dan the Player

BIG PURPLE

812 Olive St. | 336.302.3728

THE BLIND TIGER

1819 Spring Garden St | 336.272.9888 theblindtiger.com Dec 9: Imperial Blend Dec 10: Eric Gales Trio w/ Abe Reid & The Spike Drivers Dec 12: Saving Abel w/ Somewhat Forgotten, Shamck Daniels Dec 16: Norlina EP Release Party w/ The Lilly Brothers Dec 17: Purple Schoolbus w/ Dr. Bacon Dec 18: Brice Street Band

BUCKHEAD SALOON

1720 Battleground Ave | 336.272.9884 buckheadsaloongreensboro.com

CHURCHILL’S ON ELM

213 S Elm St | 336.275.6367 churchillscigarlounge.com Dec 10: Sahara Reggae Band Dec 17: Jack Long Old School Jam

COMEDY ZONE

1126 S Holden Rd | 336.333.1034 thecomedyzone.com Dec 9: Julie Scoggins Dec 10: Julie Scoggins Dec 16: Michael Mack Dec 17: Michael Mack

COMMON GROUNDS 11602 S Elm Ave | 336.698.3888

CONE DENIM

117 S Elm St | 336.378.9646 cdecgreensboro.com Dec 10: Pop Evil Dec 15: Lil’ Durk Dec 31: 2016 New Years Eve Party w/ Trial By Fire

THE GREEN BEAN

341 S. Elm St | 336.691.9990 thegreenbeancoffeehouse.blogspot.com

GREENE STREET CLUB 113 N Greene St | 336.273.4111 greenestreetclub.com Dec 15: Felly w/ Gyyps

HAM’S GATE CITY

3017 Gate City Blvd | 336.851.4800 hamsrestaurants.com

Fabulous craft cocktails, extensive draught & bottled beer selections, tasty small plates In a fun, relaxed, upscale atmosphere.

B R E AT H E Cocktail Lounge

HAM’S NEW GARDEN

We have a variety of fresh baked goodies daily along with locally roasted coffee and espresso.

CUSTOM CAKES ARE ALSO AVAILABLE FOR ANY OCCASION!

1635 New Garden Rd | 336.288.4544 hamsrestaurants.com

MCPHERSON’S BAR & GRILL

5710 W Gate City Blvd | 336.292.6496 mcphersonsgreensboro.com Dec 31: Radio Narks

PRINT WORKS BISTRO

702 Green Valley Rd | 336.379.0699 printworksbistro.com Dec 9: Evan Olsen & Jessica Mashburn

SOMEWHERE ELSE TAVERN

221 North Main St, Downtown KernersvilLe Wed & Thurs 5pm-12am, Fri & Sat 5pm-2am EclectionNC.com 336-862-9400 $5 anNual membership • Event space available

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CAKES BY B - Blue House Bakery 113 EAST MAIN ST · JAMESTOWN, NC 27282 facebook.com/cakesbyb · (336) 307-4653 HOURS: Mon-Wed 6:30am-6:00pm Thurs-Fri 6:30am-9:00pm · Sat 9am-9pm

5713 W Friendly Ave | 336.292.5464 facebook.com/thesomewhereelsetavern Dec 10: Origin of Disease, NC Hexxes, Trailer Park Orchestra, Mechabull, Manslaughter Dec 17: Black Ritual, Mindjakked, Skinn Jakkitt, Black Demize, Behind The Wheel

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thE idiot box comEdY club

2134 Lawndale Dr | 336.274.2699 www.idiotboxers.com dec 16: Yelling and Prizes!

Jan 13: A trump Roast

VillAgE tAVERn

1903 Westridge Rd | 336.282.3063 villagetavern.com

WoRld of bEER

1210 Westover Terrace | 336.897.0031 worldofbeer.com/Locations/Greensboro

high point

AftER houRS tAVERn

1614 N Main St | 336.883.4113 afterhourstavern.net dec 9: the terrible twos, Kwik fixx

hAm’S PAllAdium 5840 Samet Dr | 336.887.2434 hamsrestaurants.com

libERtY bREWERY

914 Mall Loop Rd | 336.882.4677 hghosp.com dec 8: gerry Stanek dec 15: Emma lee dec 22: tyler millard

jamestown

thE dEcK

118 E Main St | 336.207.1999 thedeckatrivertwist.com dec 9: disco lemonade dec 10: Soul central dec 16: Radio Revolver

kernersville

bluE bouRbon JAcK’S

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clAddAgh REStAuRAnt & Pub

thE EmPouRium

1310 N Main St | 336.882.2583 reverbnation.com/venue/bluebourbonjacks dec 23: heads up Penny

130 E Parris Ave | 336.841.0521 thecladdaghrestaurantandpub.com dec 7: craig baldwin dec 8: buzzard holler boys dec 9: Paris Avenue, david & Joel dec 10: midnight gypsies dec 13: Julian Jackson dec 14: craig baldwin dec 15: buzzard holler boys dec 16: midnight gypsies dec 17: Jamie leigh

612 Edgewood St | 336.558.7204 dancehalldaze.com dec 9: the delmonicos dec 10: Silverhawk dec 16: the delmonicos dec 17: cheyenne & donna miller 734 E. Mountain St. | 336.671.9159

lewisville

old nicK’S Pub

191 Lowes Foods Dr | 336.747.3059 OldNicksPubNC.com dec 10: 2nd Anniversary Party w/ big daddy mojo dec 16: Karaoke w/ dJ tyler Perkins dec 17: Joey Whitaker dec 31: new Years Eve Party with the mulligans

thE gARAgE

oakridge

JP loonEY’S

2213 E Oak Ridge Rd | 336.643.1570 facebook.com/JPLooneys dec 8: trivia

randleman

RidER’S in thE countRY 5701 Randleman Rd | 336.674.5111 ridersinthecountry.net dec 9: Wild Streak dec 10: Southbound 49

milnER’S

630 S Stratford Rd | 336.768.2221 milnerfood.com dec 11: live Jazz

muddY cREEK cAfE

5455 Bethania Rd | 336.923.8623 dec 9: Acoustic harmonies dec 11: Rob Price dec 16: clay howard dec 17: Russell lapinski dec 18: Rob Price

winston-salem

2nd And gREEn

207 N Green St | 336.631.3143 2ngtavern.com dec 23: durrell Randolph

muddY cREEK muSic hAll

5455 Bethania Rd | 336.923.8623 dec 8: Jonathan byrd and corn Raymond with Sam foster dec 9: Joan & Joni dec 10: Allison King band dec 11: the Stray birds w/ miss tess & the talkbacks dec 11: billy Strings w/ letters to Abigail

6th & VinE

209 W 6th St | 336.725.5577 6thandvine.com dec 9: Suitcase dec 10: Johnny bing trio dec 16: the mulligans dec 17: dJSK

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thE quiEt Pint

620 Trade St | 336.723.0322 facebook.com/FinnigansWake dec 3: Jerry chapman dec 10: the Radio narks

1420 W 1st St | 336.893.6881 thequietpint.com

foothillS bREWing 638 W 4th St | 336.777.3348 foothillsbrewing.com dec 11: Sunday Jazz dec 18: Sunday Jazz

tEE timE SPoRtS & SPiRitS 3040 Healy Dr | 336.760.4010 dec 9: dJ hek Yeh dec 10: live music dec 16: dJ hek Yeh dec 17: live music

Saint Wenceslaus Saint Nicholas Saint Luke Saint Augustine of Hippo

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Over 165 different beers Over 45 whiskeys Daily Specials

110 W 7th St | 336.777.1127 the-garage.ws dec 9: lacy Jags, Spirit System, 1970’s film Stock

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Detroit rock: The grunge metal of Citizen Zero

BY JOHN ADAMIAN| @johnradamian

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ome rock is on a mission. There’s plenty of loud guitar-based rock music that’s all about excess and the extremes of pleasure-seeking. But there’s a whole other strain that’s focused on assembling sturdy cathartic rock the way you might build a truck.

Taking pride in the interlocking parts, the heft of the finished product. Making music that seeks to serve a purpose in the world.

Citizen Zero are a grunge-metal-leaning band from Detroit. They have a workmanlike pride about what they do, which might have something to do with being from the Motor City. The band takes the business of entertaining and provoking their listeners seriously.

Citizen Zero just released its full-length debut, State of Mind, earlier this year.

And Citizen Zero play the Cone Center in Greensboro on Dec. 10 with Pop Evil. I spoke with Josh LeMay, the band’s singer, by phone last week from the road as

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Phone: 336.274.1000 Hours: Mon-Sat 11 am-2am / Sun noon-2 am

Open grill till 2am every night!

Best Daily Drink Specials Greensboro’s home for the Washington Redskins!

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Citizen Zero made their way through Ohio on route to Indiana.

There was a time when playing rock and roll was an act of defiance. It was something you did to piss off your parents: making noise to express and heighten your alienation. But it’s been 60 years since Elvis Presley first performed on the Ed Sullivan show. Generations have grown pretty used to it. Rock and roll fueled the countercultural revolution of the ‘60s. It got co-opted as the sound of youth. Other styles nudged rock out of prominence.

The members of Citizen Zero come from families where rock and popular music are part of life and part of making a living.

So their career choice, LeMay points out, was about “being a musician,” not about trying to get famous.

“We were all kind of just lucky to have parents that were all musicians our entire lives,” says LeMay. “We all were sort of just born into it.”

For LeMay and his bandmates -- guitarist Sammy Boller, drummer John Dudley, and bassist Sam Collins -- you get the feeling that playing in a band is a practical and honorable pursuit, sort of like becoming a welder or joining the military. It’s not necessarily an act of rebellion.

Citizen Zero can bring to mind a lot of bands, everyone from Stone Temple Pilots, Alice In Chains and Buckcherry to Aerosmith, the Who, Skid Row and Creed.

It’s all strutting guitar music, with plenty of muscle and testosterone. If there’s a through line, it’s the presence of a singer who’s driving his voice to its limits, pushing toward big highs and maintaining a texture without wiping out or blowing his pipes apart. Classic rock, grunge and popleaning metal are all blended together.

If some rock bands view their role as entertainers with suspicion, Citizen Zero approach the challenge of satisfying a crowd with a classic showmanship.

“You gotta blow it out for every single show, no matter what,” says LeMay about the highwire-act requirements of both pushing and maintaining his voice over weeks and weeks of touring.

Citizen Zero takes its name from the idea of the lone individual who can change the world. A single person can transform history, for good or ill, through a political vision, an act of defiance, civil disobedience or tapping into a mass sentiment that hasn’t been articulated yet. That might be a grand mission for a rock band, but being from the Detroit area gives Citizen Zero a front-row look at all kinds of current-events drama, and a sense of how change can come swift and out of left field. (Note the pivotal role Michigan played in the 2016 presidential election.) Detroit was the national example of a failed city for years, but it’s WWW.YESWEEKLY.COM

slowly turning around, with young people transforming parts of the city, starting restaurants and bars and generally making it hum again.

“For some reason, Detroit’s on a comeback,” says LeMay. “It’s kind of cool to be from a place at a time where there’s this rock-and-roll redemption story.”

But like New Jersey, or Appalachia, or other places that people in the rest of the country make massive assumptions about, Detroit has a little bit of an attitude about how people have viewed it over the years.

“We’re coming back and we’re pissed off about what everybody thinks of us,” says LeMay of the Detroit attitude.

Detroit gives Citizen Zero a psychological-geographical connection to artists as diverse as Eminem, Bob Seger, Kid Rock, the White Stripes and the MC5.

There might not be an overarching shared musical sensibility among those groups, but there is a kind of unifying Rust Belt contrarianism. With Citizen Zero the perspective plays out in a skepticism about received wisdom and mass media. One of the band’s songs, “Go (Let Me Save You),” was written as a type of response to, and critique of, the news media’s handling of the Newtown school tragedy in Connecticut. LeMay has spoken out about similar concerns regarding the coverage of the water crisis in Flint, Michigan.

“It seems like the main goal for our media is to divide us, and it’s just dangerous.

And not enough people are asking why,” says LeMay. “It’s really just like social control. My generation -- it’s scary -- I don’t think there are enough questions being asked. I don’t think there are enough freethinking individuals.”

Whether rock music is a sturdy enough vehicle to address these concerns will remain a question, but in an era when many people opt for fake news or self-selected media bias, perhaps a song has as much chance of sparking change or provoking critical thought as anything else.

LeMay and his bandmates will go into the studio to begin work on their second record in January. Citizen Zero isn’t likely to get slack about rocking out. They’ve got a work ethic. LeMay still retains a sense of disbelief about getting to make music as a living, and it colors the way he approaches the work.

“I can’t believe I get to do this,” he says.

“It was all I wanted ever since I was a kid. I was like a dog chasing a car. I’m still a dog chasing a car, I’m just getting really close to the car, and I’m starting to freak out.” !

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[CHOICE BEATS] Upcoming shows you should check out

Tue Dec 13

www.lincolntheatre.com DECEMBER

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JANUARY

NANTUCKET 7p WINTER METAL FEST AFTON MUSIC SHOWCASE 6p LETTUCE 7p THE INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS 8p Fr 13 ZOSO Led Zeppelin Experience

Albums I,II,III w/The Whom 7:30p

Sa 14 ZOSO Led Zeppelin Experience

IV, Houses, Presence,Pys Grafitti w/Mojo Rising Th 19 DWEEZIL ZAPPA “Dweezilla On The Road” Guitar Masterclass 2:30p

Th 19 DWEEZIL ZAPPA:

“50 Years of Frank” 7p

Fr 20 THE BAND OF HEATHENS Sa 21 DAVID ALLAN COE FEBRUARY

F r 3 AMERICAN AQUARIUM Sa 4 AMERICAN AQUARIUM Tu 14 THE WERKS

The New CARRI SMITHEY BAND WITH THE ENDS Mastersounds

Gibb’s Hundred Brewing Co. (117 W. Lewis St. Greensboro) Saturday Dec. 10 8 p.m.

“We’re happy to announce that the Carri Smithey Band will be releasing their debut album Midnight Ride at the taproom Dec. 10! The Ends will also play!

North Carolina’s Piedmont Triad is a far cry from the staple music scenes of Nashville, Austin or LA, but the foothills hold a certain charm, as well as a sense of melancholy and reckless abandon that has inspired countless songwriters. Burlington, NC’s Carri Smithey is the embodiment of this charm and abandonment; one part southern belle, one part cherry bomb firecracker, one hundred percent sincere songwriter.

Much like Dolly and Emmylou, Carri sings songs about love and heartbreak, family, friends and loss. Country music is certainly at the root and Midnight Ride stirs up feelings of nostalgia for a time when musical ambiguity was less evident.

Wurlitzer, Steel guitar and Carri’s unmistakable, silky voice marry perfectly with her band, The Ends; a quartet whose love for all things rock, funk and soul gives Midnight Ride it’s righteous spark of energy.

Link to some tunes from the album: midnightride.bandcamp.com.” - via Facebook !

Wed Dec 14

Yarn

Sat Dec 17 Sat Dec 31

Big Something

Fri Jan 6

Fr 3 Sa 4 Fr 10 Th 16 Fr 24 Sa 25 4-22 5-13 5-17

THE STRAY BIRDS WITH MISS TESS & THE TALKBACKS

Nantucket

MARCH

WHO’S BAD Michael Jackson Trib LOS LONELY BOYS THE CLARKS THE HIP ABDUCTION REVEREND HORTON HEAT WHISKEY MYERS Y&T MOTHERS FINEST MAYDAY PARADE

Adv. Tickets @Lincolntheatre.com & Schoolkids Records All Shows All Ages

126 E. Cabarrus 919-821-4111

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1000 NC Music Factory Blvd | 704.916.8970 www.fillmorecharlottenc.com Dec 9: Slippery When Wet Dec 11: Kane Brown Dec 16: Mac Miller Dec 20: Tory Lanez w/ Kranium and VeeCee Dec 31: Drop !t: Ookay Jan 11: Pop Evil Jan 19: Greensky Bluegrass

OVENS AUDITORIUM

2700 E Independence Blvd | 704.372.3600 www.ovensauditorium.com Dec 10: Soulful Sounds of Christmas Jan 21: Tim Hawkins

TWC ARENA

333 E Trade St | 704.688.9000 www.timewarnercablearena.com Dec 8: Trans-Siberian Orchestra Dec 13: Kissmas

DURHAM

DPAC

123 Vivian St | 919.680.2787 www.dpacnc.com Jan 20: Tim Hawkins Jan 22: The Beach Boys

CAROLINA THEATRE

w/ Electric Soul Pandemic

Th 23 LOUIS THE CHILD Fr 24 THE LACs Sa 25 INDECISION

2700 E Independence Blvd | 704.372.3600 www.bojanglescoliseum.com Dec 31: The Avett Brothers

GREENSBORO

Sa 18 PERPETUAL GROOVE w/Groove Fetish

BOJANGLES COLISEUM

THE FILLMORE

(Female AC/DC) / Mirror 7

Fr 6 Sa 7 Su 8 We 11 Th 12

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F r 9 THE SHAKEDOWN (Van Morrison) Sa 10 SHOOT TO THRILL w/ Dixie Dust Su 11 AFTON MUSIC SHOWCASE 6p Tu 13 JASON BOLAN & SHOOTER JENNINGS 7p We 14 THE NEW MASTERSOUNDS & TURKUAZ 7p Fr 16 GFW Presents: VIRTUAL RIOT Sa 17 YARN & DUNE DOGS 7:30p Su 18 DELTA RAE w/Penny & Sparrow 7p Sa 31 BIG SOMETHING

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Muddy Creek Music Hall (5455 Bethania Rd. Winston-Salem) Sunday Dec. 11 2 p.m.

The Stray Birds released their new album titled Magic Fire in August, which was produced by Larry Campbell.

Magic Fire builds on the success of The Stray Birds’ 2014 Yep Roc debut, Best Medicine, which was hailed by NPR’s World Café for its “strong harmonies and sharp songwriting” and debuted at #2 on the Billboard Bluegrass chart. Wide Open Country called Magic Fire “captivating,” while Elmore praised their sound “that is so well-crafted; so tightly knit and synergistic, that to imagine them missing a member is to imagine a jigsaw puzzle with a missing piece.”

No Depression deems the trio “a delight,” while Pop Matters commended their ability to “make beautiful bluegrass, a lush sound characterized by tight harmonies and all-encompassing instrumentation.” It was that unique formula that first brought them national attention and fueled their breakout in 2012, when their self-titled/self-released debut landed amongst NPR’s Top Ten Folk/Americana Albums of the Year and earned them major festival performances everywhere from MerleFest to Scotland’s Celtic Connections.

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by Lenise Willis If you’re looking for a high-energy retelling of the nativity story for the holiday season, there are two spirited productions ongoing this week. Now through Dec. 13 Barn Dinner Theatre is performing Black Nativity, a vibrant recap of the birth of Jesus that uses gospel music, African drums and dance to put new life into the story.

Triad Stage is also recounting the miracle this week through Dec. 24 in its 10th anniversary production of Beautiful Star: An Appalachian Nativity. In the comical but light-hearted production, a down-home church in the Appalachian Mountains reenacts for its “congregation” the fall of Adam and Eve, the birth of Christ and other miracles.

Also continuing this week is Open Space Café Theatre’s productions of The Santaland Diaries and Season’s Greetings, both by the witty and sarcastic David Sedaris. The one-man and one-woman shows highlight the pains of the holidays, from the hassle of family and shopping to the woes of being a Macy’s elf. Performances continue through Sunday.

Thursday through Dec. 18, Theatre Alliance kicks off its holiday season with a classic musical based on the 1954 film: White Christmas. When two iconic song-and-dance men follow a sister act to Vermont, they soon discover that the nearly-bankrupt lodge in which they are to perform is actually owned by their former commanding general. The production includes such hits as “Blue Skies,” “I Love a Piano,” and “White Christmas.”

Also new this week, Community Theatre of Greensboro is bringing back one of its holiday favorites: The Best Christmas Pageant Ever. Running Friday through Dec. 18, the fun production features a couple that is charged with putting on a church Christmas pageant with a group of inventively awful kids as the cast.

Closer to Christmas, look forward to Twin City Stage’s traditional production of Macy’s Yes, Virginia The Musical, the heart-warming tale of an eight-yearold girl who writes the local paper to ask, “Is Santa real?” The editor’s answer is a spirited message that hones the true spirit of the holidays. The performance is based on a true story and runs Dec. 16-18. !

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Holiday production by CTG honors the late Broach Theatre co-founders

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ommunity Theatre of Greensboro didn’t perform A Christmas Carol for its holiday show, but it did resurrect a ghost from Christmas past last Lenise Willis weekend when it performed a throwContributing back performance to Broach Theatre’s columnist annual classic, A Tuna Christmas. The performance was a wonderful tribute to the late Broach co-founders Stephen Gee, who passed in May, and Hall Parrish, who passed in 2008.

The connection goes back to when CTG purchased the building and theater from Allen Broach in 2012. “So, the history of the Broach Theatre is now a part of the history of CTG,” said George Carson who, along with Doug Heberle, is an actor, director and brainchild of the production.

“Our stories have become intertwined.”

Carson said that A Tuna Christmas has been a personal favorite of his since seeing it almost 20 years ago here in the Triad. “Unfortunately, I didn’t really know Stephen and Hall, but I certainly knew of their work with the Broach Theatre Company and the wonderful productions of A Tuna Christmas that they performed for so many years.”

From the 1990s to 2007, the two played more than 20 characters in their traditional Christmas production, set in the tiny town of Tuna, Texas. Carson and Heberle performed on the very stage of Gee and Parrish’s legacy.

“With Stephen’s passing this year—and, of course, the loss of Hall in 2008—I felt inspired to not only pursue the potential for performing A Tuna Christmas, but to also try and do it in such a way that it helped acknowledge the tremendous impact they had on the community for so many years,” Carson said.

Doug Heberle and Carson met last year during CTG’s own annual classic, The Wizard of Oz and both expressed interest in paying tribute to the co-founders with the energetic comedy. Director Mitchel Sommers and the CTG staff were excited and gave them their full support to pro-

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Doug Heberle and George Carson paid tribute to The Broach Theatre Company and its late co-founders with a production of A Tuna Christmas.

ceed. After meeting with Allen Broach to discuss how the production would be received by the former Broach audience, the two were given a full blessing and encouragement to continue.

“It is very clear how special Stephen and Hall were to him (and all of the Broach Theatre Company), and we are honored to have such wonderful support from Allen,” Carson said.

On Saturday, CTG made a special presentation to Allen in honor of the Broach Theatre Company and the founding members.

“CTG wouldn’t have this wonderful theater if not for the Broach Theatre Company, and now, in some ways, the history of the Broach Theatre Company lives on in the same theater through CTG,” Carson said. “Both organizations have made our community stronger, and it is an honor to be a part of that history.”

Up next for CTG is its own annual classic

of The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, a chaotic comedy about a couple attempting to put on a church Christmas production with a group of infamously misbehaved children.

“I love that it is not your typical Christmas play,” Sommers said. “(There are) lots of shenanigans, some unruly kids, some chaos and the drama of putting on a Christmas play. And yet, by the end of the play we end up at the same place we always like to end up for a warm Christmas message: understanding, friendship, spiritual awakening and gratitude.” !

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The primary audience for Rules Don’t Apply may very well be the man who made it: Warren Beatty.

The film represents the culmination of Beatty’s four-decade fascination with Mark Burger Howard Hughes and marks Beatty’s Contributing return to acting, having not appeared columnist in a film since the lamentable Town & Country (2001), and directing, having not helmed a film since the fascinating misfire Bulworth (1998). At this point in time, however, are audiences particularly interested in Beatty – or even Howard Hughes, previously the subject of Martin Scorsese’s The Aviator (2004), a project which Beatty circled for years?

This awkward film, posited as a romance/comedy/drama – and succeeding

at none – would indicate not, particularly given its paltry box-office takings to date.

And Beatty, who has never been one to extensively promote his films – even those which he produced, directed and scripted (like this one) – isn’t helping his own cause.

Set in 1958, the film principally dramatizes the budding relationship between Frank Forbes (Aiden Ehrenreich), one of Hughes’ dutiful drivers, and Marla Mabrey (Lily Collins), the latest wide-eyed show-biz hopeful to join Hughes’ stable of starlets at RKO. (Hughes actually sold the studio in 1955, but an opening legend indicates that historical accuracy is of little concern.)

Hughes is a shadowy figure initially, much talked-about and only fleetingly glimpsed, yet like Beatty his presence is felt throughout. Once Hughes – and Beatty – make their appearance, the story’s focus and balance tilts in his direction.

Particularly during the film’s first half, scenes end so abruptly as to almost negate their individual or collective impact,

and despite points of interest throughout, the story never builds to a specific climax.

Beatty has surrounded himself with a stellar supporting cast – real-life wife Annette Bening (as Marla’s mother), Matthew Broderick (quite good), Martin Sheen, Alec Baldwin, Candice Bergen, Dabney Coleman, Steve Coogan, Paul Sorvino, Oliver Platt, Haley Bennett, Taissa Farmiga, UNCSA graduate Paul Schneider, and real-life husband-and-wife Ed Harris and Amy Madigan – but many of them are relegated to mere cameo status.

Ehrenreich and Collins are affable enough in colorless roles, but Beatty has given himself the best lines, the best scenes, and the showiest role. Having won a Best Director Oscar for Reds (1981) and the Irving Thalberg Award in 1999, he’s never won Best Actor. To say this is his bid for one would be an understatement.

To say that Rules Don’t Apply reeks of a vanity project would likewise be an understatement. And, unfortunately, to say the film doesn’t work is also an understatement. !

Visit to a small planet Director Denis Villeneuve brings his trademark exploration of morality to Arrival, a thoughtful sciencefiction drama adapted from Ted Chiang’s short story Story of Your Life by screenwriter Eric Heisserer.

Although the story depicts an alien visitation to Earth, credibility is maintained throughout – and anchored by Amy Adams’ first-rate performance as Louise Banks, a linguistics expert tapped to decipher the aliens’ language. As 12 alien crafts have descended to various points around the globe, the worldwide population wonders if their intent is cohabitation, communication, or conquest.

Ably assisted by physicist Ian Donnelly (Jeremy Renner), Louise begins the arduous, and potentially perilous, task of establishing contact with the aliens (referred to as “Heptapods”), who aren’t clearly seen until the film is well underway, thereby upping the suspense quotient.

Adams’ character is the only one to fully emerge, although Renner offers solid support. There’s a marvelous scene when they first enter the alien craft. She she’s visibly terrified while he’s almost giddy with anticipation. Forest Whitaker plays the quintessentially hard-nosed (but not unsympathetic) colonel overseeing the

operation, and Michael Stuhlbarg the quintessentially hard-nosed (but not sympathetic) CIA agent on the project.

More akin to Close Encounters (1977) than Independence Day (1996), and refreshingly more interested in raising ideas and questions than providing a bigbang special-effects blow-out (although the effects are excellent). Arrival doesn’t always answer the questions it raises, and occasionally veers into melodrama, but its esoteric approach to a familiar storyline and intriguing chronological structure are certainly worthy of praise. !

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A profile in courage Whatever one wants to say about Mel Gibson’s personal life or opinions, the man knows his way around a camera, as witness his Oscar-winning direction of the Oscar-winning Best Picture Braveheart (1995) and his acclaimed Apocalypto (2006). He has a definite knack for capturing scale and scope, as well as executing superlative action sequences.

That proficiency is on display in Hacksaw Ridge, a fact-based World War II drama focusing on Desmond Doss (Andrew Garfield), a country boy from the Blue Ridge Mountains who became a combat hero without ever picking up a weapon. But as the film, scripted by Andrew Knight and Robert Shenkkan, indicates, Doss was a hero even before that – when he stood up for his religious convictions and indicated he would not take the life of another.

The first hour of the film depicts Doss’ life at home, with a doting mother (Rachel Griffiths) and a father (Hugo Weaving) whose anger, abusiveness and alcoholism stem directly from his traumatic memories of serving in World War I. In boot camp, Doss plainly makes his intentions clear that he wants to serve in the US Army Medical Corps and considers himself a “conscientious cooperator” rather than a conscientious objector. This stand earns him the enmity of many of his fellow soldiers and a possible courtmartial, yet he stands firm in his resolve.

He’s determined to serve his country, and equally determined not to kill for it.

Having overcome one hurdle (avoiding court-martial), Doss is truly put to the test in the battle of Okinawa in May 1945, in

a brutal clash with entrenched Japanese forces. (There is some attempt to indicate the nobility of the Japanese, but for the most part they are nameless, faceless foes to be slaughtered.)

Although Garfield occasionally overdoes the “Aw, shucks” attitude, he’s likable and sympathetic throughout. Teresa Palmer is the proverbial “girl he left behind,” a pretty nurse who stands by her man throughout, and Sam Worthington plays Doss’ understandably skeptical captain.

There’s particularly good work from Luke Bracey, as the resident barracks bully whose initial loathing of Doss does a quick about-face in the heat of battle, and Vince Vaughn as a bellicose drill sergeant underneath whose bluster beats a human heart.

Filmed entirely in Australia – which doubles convincingly for West Virginia and Okinawa – Hacksaw Ridge is a respectful and sincere tribute to heroism and sacrifice, but in no way is it a glorification of war. The brutality, viciousness and sheer suddenness of combat are depicted in totally convincing fashion, on par with the D-Day dramatization in Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan (1999). It is here where Gibson’s expertise comes to the fore in ferocious fashion, with major assists from cinematographer Simon Duggan and editor John Gilbert.

Gibson can’t resist bring an emphasis (or even an over-emphasis) of religious symbolism to the proceedings, although it’s equally true that the circumstances of Doss’ life and military service do invite such emphasis. !

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here’s a spate of books this year about food, proving the diversity of food choices in our state and providing the adventurous with all the information they need for a North Carolina food expedition, whether they want to hit the road or cook it themselves. A couple of the books below are by local chefs while others profile North Carolina restaurateurs and brewmasters. You can travel the state, using just your nose and your taste buds.

Stephanie L.Tyson oversees the kitchen at Winston Salem’s Sweet Potatoes Restaurant in Winston Salem, preparing soul food and tasty variations on soul food staples. In her Soul Food Odyssey (John F. Blair, $19.95) you’ll find everything from Skillet Cornbread, Fried Chitterlings and Mustard Green Salad to Fried Chicken and Beef Short Ribs. These recipes are easy to follow and generally require no exotic ingredients.

For something a little more challenging, check out John Batchelor’s book,

Chefs of the Coast: Restaurants & Recipes from the North Carolina Coast (John F. Blair, $19.95). In this book, you’ll be introduced to the chefs behind long-standing coastal restaurants as well as new ones. Each chef is profiled, as is their restaurant. After the profile, they share some of their most popular recipes.

There’s a concentration on seafood, of course, but that doesn’t mean you won’t find recipes for Blue Point Pound Cake and Lemon Blueberry Cheesecake. Among the seafood delicacies are a Carolina Bouillabaisse from Kelly’s Outer Banks Restaurant and Tavern and Baked Oysters with Onion Bacon Jam and Creamed Collards from City Kitchen in Beaufort, NC. Continuing with the seafood theme, we

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have local culinary mainstay Jay Pierce and Shrimp: A Savor the South Cookbook (University of North Carolina Press, $18). In this volume in the series (which includes separate volumes on Tomatoes, Buttermilk, and Okra, among others), Jay provides 50 recipes for the many-legged creatures ranging from the classic to the modern and he makes the case that shrimp is one of the last wild proteins our culture regularly consumes. Interspersed with the recipes, Jay tells stories about his childhood on the coast and his personal relationship to seafood. You don’t want to miss his recipe for Rhubarbecued Shrimp.

D.G. Martin’s North Carolina’s Roadside Eateries: A Traveler’s Guide to Local Restaurants, Diners, and Barbecue Joints (University of North Carolina Press, $16) is exactly that, a traveler’s guide. It’s organized by the highways of North Carolina, so you can plan a trip along I-26 and hit every restaurant you find, or you can check the route to grandma’s house and find a place to stop for lunch along the way. There are no recipes here, but there’s a little history on each restaurant, suggestions on what to order, detailed directions to each restaurant, and things to do in the area before or after the meal. The real joy of this book is finding those places only in-the-know locals are privy to and building your own road trip of discovery.

Arising from a different perspective altogether, The Carolina Table: North Carolina Writers on Food (Eno Publishing, $17.95) brings together a wide variety of writers in the state to revel in the scents and textures, the tastes and the history of their favorite foods and food

experiences. Jaki Shelton Green sings the praises of food as a communal experience and of cooking as a kind of living history, embodying all the cooks she’s known and meals she’s ever had. Jill McCorkle writes about her personal history with pound cake and includes a recipe. Diya Abdo writes of an Iraqi refugee women living in Greensboro and how food and cooking holds her life together, gives it meaning. There are many other stories, by Lee Smith, Michael Parker, Randall Kenan and a host of others, all steeped in the experience and history of our Southern Culinary heritage.

And, these days especially, we can’t talk about food without talking about beer. Craft beer. It seems that a new brewery opens every other day on one block or another. Don’t worry, though, Erik Lars Myers and Sarah H. Fickle are here to help you navigate the thicket of state breweries with North Carolina Craft Beer & Breweries (John F. Blair, 19.95). In this book, Myers and Ficke profile over 135 breweries from all over the state. From Banner Elk to Wilmington, you can read capsule histories of each craft brewery along with hours of operation and website address. Here again, they make suggestions about flagship brews and talk with the people who make them. A Second Edition was released this year to add newly opened breweries. !

STEVE MITCHELL’s short story collection, The Naming of Ghosts, is published by Press 53. You can find him at www.thisistevemitchell.com or at Scuppernong Books, where he is co-owner.

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Artistic Connection rings in the holidays with annual “Potluck Picture Show” artists – encouraging different Throughout the year, the states to come here and spend Artistic Connection hosts special their finances locally. Once they screenings, panel discussions realized they can save money and regular meetings at Altair in other states, they will go Casting Services in Winstonwherever they can to line their Salem in an effort to bring pockets. If you ask any local arttogether the region’s artistic ist now where they can best get contingent as a way to promote their supplies – from lenses to their individual and collective canvas – they are having to go to endeavors, and to foster new Mark Burger other states. collaborations.

“The Artistic Connection really With the holiday season upon Contributing wants to emphasize that there is us, the Artistic Connection is so much talent here that is being presenting its second annual columnist overlooked,” she says. “It is not “Potluck Picture Show” on Dec. easy by any means. We have to 16 – and everyone’s invited, learn to look at the arts as more than a whether you’re an artist or an aficionado hobby and as what it actually is: a career of the arts. choice.

If we treat905 it as such, will see According to AmandaWed Hoey, one of the Dec 7th vs Raptors at we 7pm a huge change in the growth of our local event’s organizers, “TheCollege Potluck Picture Night and Holiday Drive artists. There are those, though, who have Show is our way of celebrating this year’s stayed knowing there is so much potenachievements in film. We want to see tial here. The problem is that what trailers, short filmsSat and commercials Dec 10 vs Windy City Bulls atnetworking 7pm is an art itself. that people have made this year. Last Hornets Shirt Give Away, Holiday Drive “Local businesses don’t realize that ifand year, we had our first Potluck Picture Post Game they used local artists they could grow Show and this year we are adding an extraAutographs their own businesses,” she says. “Why not hour because we had so many submisreach out to local artists to build your new sions last year.”

Canton Charge at 7pm Why not shoot instructional There is no admissionTue for theDec event,13 vs website? but donations are gratefully accepted.

Holiday Drive videos or a new commercial with local actors and a local film crew? Whether it’s Potential guests are encouraged to RSVP visual, audio, or even fashion, the Artistic so that organizers can plan accordingly.

Satwhatever Dec 17 athard 7pm Connection is905 working to help artists “We welcome all to bring proj-vs Raptors getting paid in their fields while working ect you have been working on this year as Autographs Post Game with local businesses.” well as a covered dish for the event,” says Indeed, she adds, “the Artistic ConnecHoey. “We want to celebrate all of you for Mon 26 vstion Fort Wayne Ants atto has been meetingMad for years in order this event. We had so much fun Dec last time facilitate the networking required to make and hope this one will be bigger and bet2pm it in the arts field. Our educational semiter. If you plan to bring a project please try Beanie Giveaway nars are featured once a month in order to to limit the length and let us know so we educate artists on who to connect with, can finalize the schedule. If you are bringand how to succeed in their fields. There is ing a dish, please RSVP with what culinary a vast amount of talent that resides here. delight you plan to bring.”

They want to succeed but don’t know Like many filmmakers in North Carowhere to start. The Artistic Connection lina, those at the Artistic Connection is a resource that is opening doors that have major concerns about the state of different artists might not have otherwise the industry here. The loss of financial had. We have equipment rentals availincentives remains a hot topic of debate, able, one-on-one consultations, as well as yet many filmmakers continue to ply their events to help artists hone their craft.” ! trade here, doing the best work they can under the circumstances.

“The artists in North Carolina lost WANNA more than just an election when the film incentives went away – they lost a way The second annual “Potluck Picture Show” will of life,” observes Hoey. “There seemed to be held 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm Friday, Dec. 16 at be a present-day ‘gold rush’ that herded Altair Casting Production Services, 703 Coliseum to Atlanta where people were paying all Plaza Court, Winston-Salem. Admission is free; different artists for their skills. We lost donations accepted. For more information, call millions, if not billions, in business when 336.734.8285 or e-mail a.hoey@yahoo.com. we lost the incentives. When it was in efThe official Artistic Connection website is www. fect, it was easier to secure paid work for whichfoot.net.

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Triadfoodies gift guide of glorious deliciousness... and giveaway

BY KRISTI MAIER | @triadfoodies

’Tis the season to be jolly and to support the amazing local artisans that make up the Piedmont Triad. How about avoiding the malls and the centers and instead stroll leisurely at a local market or locally-owned business? You get to avoid the chaos and can feel good about your purchase. Here’s a gift guide for the 2016 season. It features some of our favorite things of the year. And since it’s the season of giving, we’re giving away every single one of these items (and then some). Details about where to purchase and how much are also included. Keep reading for how you can win this amazing basket filled with my favorite things of 2016.

1. Texas Pete Sabor $3-$3.50 If there was a #1 most anticipated, most used again and again item of 2016 in my household, it would have to be Texas Pete’s latest hot sauce. Sabor Mexican Style Hot Sauce is TW Garner’s answer to a basic taco sauce. It’s more rustic and spicy than regular Pete, but not with heat. Think spices spicy. We even did a taste test of Sabor with our beloved Chalula and Sabor won hands down. If you haven’t tried it yet, definitely give it a go.

You can find it with other Texas Pete hot sauces in just about every grocery store in our region. Or visit texaspete.com.

The basket is also filled with some other Texas Pete swag: Texas Pete Hot Sauce, CHA!, coozies, and a cap.

2. Legendary Sunshine Energy Drink $6.99/case drinkthesunshine.com I’ve loved Sunshine for a while. It’s my daughter’s favorite afternoon drink of the year. Just enough lift to get her through the rest of the day. The flagship flavor, Ginger Berry is refreshing and not too sweet. And this year, Sunshine introduced two new flavors, Clementine Twist and Blueberry Lemonade. And then those became favorite drinks of 2016 too. You can find it at many local shops, Mast General Store in Winston-Salem and Lowes Foods.

Packed with some ginseng and B12, vitamins and other natural ingredients, organic caffeine and low sugar. Someone who claims to be in the know said it’s a great re-hydrator after an evening of consuming too many adult beverages. It’s the sunshine to moonshine, get it? Which brings us to…if you haven’t tried them

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in a cocktail, you definitely should. And that brings us to our next item in the gift guide….

3. Covington Sweet Potato Vodka It wouldn’t be a Triadfoodies gift guide without some NC Spirits, would it? Each bottle of Covington Vodka is made from 20 pounds of sweet potatoes. Based out of Snow Hill in Eastern North Carolina, it is terrifically pleasing and disappears nicely into any mixer you care to pair it with. Mixologist Jordan Keiper of The Tavern in Old Salem, says it stands up to any top shelf vodka in the stores and that it replaced his Grey Goose. We both have so much confidence in this North Carolina spirit, that Keiper created not one, not two but

three craft cocktails in the spirit of our gift guide…one with each flavor of sunshine.

And the recipes will be included here and in our winning basket.

The basket includes a bottle of Covington but also some coupons…for when you need a refill.

4. Gnomestead Hollow Farm & Forage Curry Kraut $10 gnomesteadhollow.com Where do we begin with this unique and fun farm that produces raw, living vegetable ferments and gourmet mushrooms just into the hills of the Blue Ridge Mountains on the other side of Virginia?

Nomads, I mean owners, Jenna and Matt, hail from the Pacific Northwest. They

are very smart and adorable and know a lot about vegetables and foraging and gnomes. When we say they are crafting small batch ferments, we mean it, five to ten gallons at a time. We love this Curry Kraut because it is not as wonky as the sauerkraut you may have grown up with, rather a lovely, light and crunchy middle eastern flavor. It’s so awesome on deviled eggs and Jenna (JJ) and Matt love it on a burger or the versatility of serving it on eggs. I personally love it on a salad with a homemade thousand island dressing. And also on hummus. Gnomestead is much loved by restaurants in Winston-Salem and you’re likely to find it on a number of menus around town. You can meet them at Cobblestone Farmers Market where

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you can purchase any of their krauts, curtido, mushrooms (fresh and dried) and just get to “gnowe” them a little better. (stole that from their website… go visit it at gnomesteadhollow.com).

Gnomestead Hollow products are also found at Let It Grow Produce in WS, Deep Roots Market in GSO, The Blossoming Artichoke and The Only Earth in High Point and Organix Juice Bar in WS. 5. Niki’s Pickles $10/pint It seems only logical that we have another jar of pickles in our gift guide and basket. If you’re paying attention to some of our local restaurant owners like, Breakfast Queen Mary Haglund of Mary’s Gourmet Diner or the Keipers at The Tavern in Old Salem, you’ll see they do love some of Niki Farrington’s Pickles, dubbed Niki’s Pickles. Indeed they are crispy and have just the right amount of delicious dill to make you happy. You can find Niki’s Pickles at the Cobblestone Farmers’s Market, The Living Room Coffee House and Wine Bar in Pilot Mountain and at Mary’s Gourmet Diner in WS. The winner of our basket will receive a glorious trio of pickles (cuke, radish, cauliflower) and some hot sauce…because it’s the season of giving and Niki is feeling it.

6. Fogwood Farm Butter Pecan Syrup $8.49 I first discovered Brenda Sutton’s Fogwood Farm Butter Pecan Syrup at Got To Be NC Competition Dining. It’s like a maple syrup meets pecan praline sauce.

It’s delicious on pancakes, waffles and French toast. Great drizzled on biscuits and superb as an ice cream topping. You can do what you want to with it. One of the competition dining chefs made a cheesecake crust with it and it was incredible. Just give it a little stir or warm it up and pour that lovely golden goodness onto something worthy. You can find Fogwood Farm products at Lowe’s Foods and markets like Let It Grow Produce in WS. Not only will the winner get this delicious Butter Pecan Syrup but the folks at Fogwood wanted our winner to also have their latest baby, Ghost Pepper Jelly, which is totally our jam right now. It’s spectacular paired with a really sharp cheese…for instance a pimento cheese— try it! Dab a little on top of your cracker with the spread of your choice. It rocks on cream cheese too or grilled cheese. And on a chicken biscuit…with cheese. fogwoodfood.com 7. B & G Pies 895 Northwest Blvd, WS $1-2 Winston-Salem’s own hand-held fried icon. The bakery recently moved their WWW.YESWEEKLY.COM

production over to Northwest Blvd. where you can get a fresh pie Monday-Thursday.

Otherwise you’ll find these groovy fruity pockets at convenience stores. We love them all but we especially love apple.

Someone told us to melt cheddar on it.

What?? You try it and tell us if you agree that it is yummy.

B&G is giving our winner one of each flavor: Apple, Cherry, Lemon, Peach and Chocolate.

8. Black Mountain Chocolate Fruitcake $15, 732 Trade Street, WS blackmountainchocollate.com Oh hail, the Queen of Fruitcakes. This fruitcake is not that hard weird doorstop with … are they… cherries? She was in our gift guide last year and by gracious we just haven’t been able to get her out of our mind the last 11 months so here we are again. It deserves to be here. And you deserve to win this cake. It has neighbor Branch Distillery’s Night Lab Whiskey in it.

It’s as boozy as ever and just as chocolatey. This is an adult fruitcake, ya’ll. Not for the kiddos.

9. Village Juice Company, 205 South Stratford Road villagejuicecompany.com Since we can’t fit a smoothie bowl or a grain bowl in our gift basket, we will have to give the next best thing. A gift card to enjoy one of the many healthy options at Village Juice. If a smoothie or a cold-pressed juice is more your speed, by all means just grab and go. But we hope you’ll take a seat and enjoy one of their colorful bowls of goodness, particularly the brussels & bacon grain bowl with quinoa. Eat it and you just knocked your body full of vitamins and superfoods and you’ll be ready to take on the world.

VJC is giving our winner a $15 gift card 10. Chow Time Taxi chowtimetaxi.com We love Chow Time because they work with some of our wonderful, locallyowned restaurants and businesses. And they think out of the box and don’t just deliver pizza but they’ll deliver coffee from West End Coffeehouse and your grain bowl from VJC (see above) and a whole bunch of other places too.

The winner of our basket is getting a voucher for one FREE delivery of a future order. !

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[THE ADVICE GODDESS] love • sex • dating • marriage • questions

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My boyfriend of a year is a big sweetheart, but whenever we go out to eat, he always orders first.

It really bothers me, and I feel disrespected and embarrassed that people are seeing this, despite how

this probably makes me a bad feminist.

How do I ask him nicely to let me order first when we dine out? - Irked Suddenly, he’s shoving you out of the way to get to the lifeboat — yelling back, “Babe, you’ll be fine! You were on the swim team!”

At least, that’s the way the older couple next to you are likely to see it when he orders his meal first, and that is embarrass-

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ing. Sadly, it doesn’t help that feminist academics have deemed customs like women ordering first “benevolent sexism” — casting women as weak and in need of protection and coddling by men (aka patriarchal cockroaches).

Males, throughout human history and throughout the animal kingdom, did evolve to be the protectors and defenders of women. This makes biological sense, considering that women provide a cozy B&B for the developing fetus, plus liquid refreshment and child care after the kid is born. And even a relatively wimpy man is likely to have more muscle mass, upperbody strength, and aggression-energizing testosterone than most women.

A number of modern behavioral protocols come out of these sex differences. For example, there’s how the man’s the one to walk closest to the curb, open the car door, and act as a human shield against a gun-toting mugger — despite how, these days, even the itsy-bitsiest woman can make quick work of an attacker with her sparkly “My Little Pony”-emblazoned Smith & Wesson.

The reality is that the psychology driving these customs, which evolved over millions of years, doesn’t just change all “presto gloriasteinemo!” because women now have ways to defend themselves.

That’s probably why you feel embarrassed about others’ eyes on you. Evolutionary psychologist Daniel Sznycer, who researches shame, explains that shame is not just a feeling. It seems to be an information management program that evolved to help us protect our reputation.

That feel-bad that rises up in us is a signal

that we’d better do something pronto to stop our slide down the social totem pole.

As for how to tell your boyfriend, keep in mind that you can school a guy in social customs but you can’t school him in being “a big sweetheart.” Use a compliment as your launchpad — about wonderful things he does for you — and then throw in a “I know you didn’t realize this, but...”

This way, it’s not so much a criticism as a pointer on how to make you happier.

And the truth is, if you’re like a lot of women, you might find it sexy when the physical differences between men and women are emphasized in small symbolic ways like this. No, you aren’t a traitor to womankind if you say “Thanks...that’s so sweet!” when a guy puts his coat around your shoulders — instead of “Get that thing off me! I’ll do the feminist thing and freeze.”

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come,” not “Get crowd control over here pronto for the mob of handsome, fabulous royals who will soon be gathering on my front lawn.”

Picturing yourself in the cuddly-wuddly life you feel you should already have may be part of the problem. Motivation researcher Gabriele Oettingen finds that fantasizing is often demotivating — fooling our mind into believing that we already have the thing we’re dreaming of. Oettingen’s research makes a case for combining fantasizing with what I’d call “positive pessimism” — making yourself consider all the things standing in the way of what you want. As Oettingen explains it, thinking concretely about the obstacles we have to overcome helps energize us to tackle them.

The reality is, the older you get and the more you expect from a boyfriend the harder it will be to find one. So either buckle down and prepare for the dating grind or do what it takes to immediately have a life partner who will look at you with great adoration: Give your dog salami. !

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